Kayla Guo
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politics reporter @texastribune. tips to kayla.guo@texastribune.org or kaylaguo.19 on signal
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Paxton was supposed to have his final pre-Election Day campaign stop Monday at the Alamo, but his campaign put out an Eventbrite for Allen (roughly 300 miles from the Alamo) that evening.
There is a San Antonio event listed for tomorrow evening, but it's isn't near the Alamo.
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NEW: Many were confused when Gov. Greg Abbott hired Nate Schatzline, a Christian nationalist election denier w/ no background in voting law, as a top adviser on election security. We now know what he's up to: Attacking Muslims - with Abbot's apparent blessing. (Gift link below).
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Elon Musk's America PAC drops another $6 million into the #TXSen# race, bringing its total there to over $40 million.
Adding the contributions fueling SLF's spending, Musk has likely spent north of $220 million to try to drag Paxton across the finish line.
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Interesting data point from the TSU survey — 98% of people who have a favorable opinion of Jasmine Crockett are voting for Talarico. But among people who have a favorable opinion of John Cornyn, Paxton is only winning 68%.
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After denouncing Tim Dunn last year, Amarillo megadonor Alex Fairly pours $1 million into Dunn's political operation - @jamesfortexas has the story
On Election Day, Texas voters will have their say on who represents them, from the U.S. Senate to critical state races. Join @eklib and @MWatkinsTrib along with @kaylaguo_ the morning after the election to analyze the election’s outcomes and what they mean for Texans. In Austin & online Nov. 4. RSVP:
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When James Talarico was still Jimmy, he learned politics as a student at UT Austin. I spoke to some people who knew him back then.
MCKINNEY — Talarico’s path to victory may require doing what no federal Democrat has done since 1970, when Lloyd Bentsen defeated George H.W. Bush in his first Senate run: win Collin County.
Inside the changing politics of a fast-growing county:
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A remarkable amount of money flowed into the Texas governor’s race over the last month, marked by a furious fundraising push by Gov. Greg Abbott as he finds himself in an unusually competitive race against Democrat Gina Hinojosa.
via @TexasTribune:
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.@GregAbbott_TX reports $26 million raised in his SPAC, including $5 million from Elon Musk and $3 million from the RGA:
He has $8.5 COH. #txlege#
Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip.
The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century.
But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵
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Houston: Hundreds of Texans leaving their "I voted" stickers at the site where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot by ICE
A trust owned by Texas AG Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, invested in a company led by a convicted fraudster.
The firm and its affiliates later sent the trust 15 payments totaling $83K before and during the AG’s impeachment trial.
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More than $1 billion has been spent on media buys in Texas across all races in this election cycle, per @AdImpact_Pol. #txlege#
Pro-Talarico Lone Star Rising PAC reports raising $11.7M with $12.7M on hand. Notable donors:
- Reid Hoffman: $5M (bringing his aggregate to $16.5M)
- Michael Bloomberg: $2.5M
- Thomas J. Henry, trial lawyer who endorsed + gave Ken Paxton $600K in the primary: $1M
- SMP: $1M
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A deep dive into the Latino vote in Texas, and why many both suspect a swing towards Democrats is coming and caution against assuming it's durable
Here's an eye-popping graph, illustrating the steep slope of national GOP money pouring in for Ken Paxton in #TXSEN#:
SLF-backed Texas PAC is up to $68.5M in ad buys, surpassing Talarico's $56M, per @AdImpact_Pol.
via @TexasTribune
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Cornered by Big Bend backlash, Texas Republicans tread carefully around Trump
via @TexasTribune @serrano_alej @birenbomb:
Gov. @GregAbbott_TX says @SecMullinDHS "committed" to him this weekend that the feds "will not be building a wall or a fence in Big Bend National Park."
"They understand that there are other tools to successfully secure that part through technology, through personnel," he says.
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